Device for sterilizing razors.



PATENTED DEC. '22, 1 903.

F. E. KING. DEVICE FOR ISTERILI-ZING RAZORS.

APPLIOATION IILED APR. 1. 1903.

H0 MODEL.

INVENTOR WITNESSES. awk

THE 'nonm Patented December 22, 1903.

PAT NT OFFICE.

FRED E. KING, OF WEST PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR STERILIZING RAZORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 747,554, dated December 22, 1903.

Application filed April 1, 1903. Serial No. 15 0,6 13. KNO model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED E. KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at West'Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Sterilizing'Razors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tanks for sterilizing razors, and has for its object to construct a receptacle for holding a supply of antiseptic solution and having a rack for supporting razors with their blades submerged in the solution.

The simple and novel construction employed by me in carrying out my invention is fully described and claimed in this specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Figure l is a perspective of my device with several razors therein. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tank. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the same.

Like numerals of reference designate like parts in the different views, of the drawings.

The numeral 1 designates a cubical box open at the top and constructed of some noncorrodible material. grooves 2 are formed in the inner side of one of the ends 3 of the box and are undercut and rounded out to adapt them to accommodate the bevel rounded backs of razor-blades 4, and thereby form a rack for the razors. The lower ends 2 of the grooves 2 come a little above the bottom of the box and support the blunt points of the razor-blades. The length of the box l is made a little less than the length of a razor-handle 5 to adapt it to engage and support the handle when bent forward. I

The box 1 is filled at least half full of antiseptic solution, and the blades 4 are inserted in the grooves 2 with the blunt points resting on the lower ends 2 of the grooves-2 and the angular corners thereof kept from engaging the bottom of the box 1. These blades are thus held firmly in place and are wholly sub- A series of parallel merged. The handles 5 are bent forward to rest on the end of the box 1.

' To remove the razor for use, the handle is grasped and pulled straight up until the blade 4 is withdrawn from the groove 2. It should be observed that the grooves 2 hold the razors against clashing,and there is no danger of striking one against the other on inserting or withdrawing them from the grooves 2.

grooves formed in one side thereof and rounded out to accommodate the rounded back of razors, substantially as described.

3. In a device for sterilizing razors, a receptacle for liquid a little shorter than the length of a razor-handle, and of a depth equal to or greater than the length of a razor-blade,-said receptacle having a vertical groove formed therein the length of the rounded back of a razor-blade, substantially as described.

4. In a device for sterilizing razors, the combination of a receptacle for antiseptic solution, and a rack formed in said receptacle and having vertical grooves therein adapted to engage and securely hold the rounded blades of razors, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED E. KING.

Witnesses:

THOMAS H. DOWNEY, WM. H. BALDWIN. 

